Keith Hernandez

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 20, 1953 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 30, 1974

Final gameJuly 24, 1990

Seasons17 (1974–1990)

St. Louis Cardinals 1974–1982; New York Mets 1983; St. Louis Cardinals 1983; New York Mets 1984–1989; Cleveland Indians 1990

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified batters

154

69.9

676

86.5

587

76.7

62.4

170

80.5

52.6

20.3

42.9

RBI

66.9

84.2

104

25.6

75.9

.290

67.7

OBP

.377

76.7

SLG

.436

38.3

OPS

.813

57.1

wRC+

123.7

69.9

OPS+

121.4

69.2

wOBA

.366

66.2

sWAR

2.9

58.6

of 134 qualified 1987 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

131.6

91.7

OPS+

128.4

sWAR

43.4

98.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	14	41	34	3	10	1	2	0	2	7	8	0	0	.294	.415	.441	.856	152.6	142.0	.410	0.3
1975	64	207	188	20	47	8	2	3	20	17	26	0	1	.250	.309	.362	.671	81.1	83.7	.313	-0.3
1976	129	428	374	54	108	21	5	7	46	49	53	4	2	.289	.376	.428	.803	132.2	127.9	.376	2.1
1977	161	645	560	90	163	41	4	15	91	79	88	7	7	.291	.379	.459	.837	127.6	126.0	.376	2.9
1978	159	633	542	90	138	32	4	11	64	82	68	13	5	.255	.351	.389	.741	98.3	97.0	.343	0.5
1979	161	698	610	116	210	48	11	11	105	80	78	11	6	.344	.417	.513	.930	157.9	151.9	.421	6.0
1980	159	690	595	111	191	39	8	16	99	86	73	14	8	.321	.408	.494	.902	156.2	148.0	.414	5.7
1981	103	444	376	65	115	27	4	8	48	61	45	12	5	.306	.401	.463	.864	148.7	142.7	.400	3.1
1982	160	694	579	79	173	33	6	7	94	100	67	19	11	.299	.397	.413	.810	128.5	127.1	.371	3.2
1983	150	633	538	77	160	23	7	12	63	88	72	9	5	.297	.396	.433	.829	134.2	131.0	.381	3.4
1984	154	657	550	83	171	31	0	15	94	97	89	2	3	.311	.409	.449	.859	147.4	144.1	.395	4.6
1985	158	682	593	87	183	34	4	10	91	77	59	3	3	.309	.384	.430	.814	131.8	131.9	.369	3.5
1986	149	652	551	94	171	34	1	13	83	94	69	2	1	.310	.413	.446	.859	147.8	142.2	.396	4.7
1987	154	676	587	87	170	28	2	18	89	81	104	0	2	.290	.377	.436	.813	123.7	121.4	.366	2.9
1988	95	384	348	43	96	16	0	11	55	31	57	2	1	.276	.333	.417	.750	121.1	120.3	.343	1.4
1989	75	244	215	18	50	8	0	4	19	27	39	0	3	.233	.324	.326	.649	94.8	91.7	.307	0.1
1990	43	145	130	7	26	2	0	1	8	14	17	0	0	.200	.283	.238	.521	43.6	48.0	.246	-0.8

Career totals

2,088

200th-most career G

8,553

203rd-most career PA

7,370

237th-most career AB

1,124

248th-most career R

2,182

198th-most career H

426

150th-most career 2B

162

RBI

1,071

245th-most career RBI

1,070

98th-most career BB

1,012

384th-most career SO

.2961

290th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3844

154th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4361

OPS

.8205

347th-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1985-07-04	NYM @ ATL Gameday	10	3	4	1	1	1	3	1	10
1980-06-03	STL @ NYM Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1985-09-02	NYM @ SD Gameday	5	4	5	0	0	1	3	0	8
1985-07-08	NYM @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1981-08-23	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

11× Gold Glove2× Silver Slugger1× Most Valuable Player5× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.